Forgot Bumper Foam

Hey all.

This week I replaced the header panel grille and had the front end of the car apart. Last night once the job was done, I smiled brightly at my accomplishment only to look around in my garage and see the front bumper foam piece still sitting in my garage. I can't seem to fit it in without pulling the front bumper cover off again. Had a few questions I was hoping one of you could help with:

1. Does the front foam piece off any specific functionality or is it just for noise reduction? Sort of concerned driving without the foam installed.

2. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the piece back in without pulling everything apart again? Half of me sort of thought about cutting it in to three pieces and trying to get each piece in individually.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. Maybe I outta just suck it up and pull the front cover again.

Thanks guys. I guess I was just being lazy; thanks for getting me back on track.

I drove her to and back home from work today without the foam and noticed some funky air vibration/noise which I think was air from the road spinning around in the now open space behind the cover.

Foam will go back in this weekend.